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'World’s highest qualified merchant seamen' dies aged 62

John Fisher on the deck of a trawler off East Anglia during the 1970s wearing a red jacket and yellow trousers

Obituary

Donna-Louise Bishop

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Tributes have been paid to one of the world’s highest qualified merchant seamen, who died aged 62 on his beloved narrowboat. Captain John Leslie Fisher, who was known by many as “Joe”, spent most of his life travelling the world and climbing up...

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